Technique Tuesday Christmas in July - Joyous Juniper

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Today I'm showing off some cards created with the Joyous Juniper stamps/dies.  When I saw this set, I thought the image would be perfect to create some kraft cards.  I love the look of coloring on kraft, so I immediately thought of using colored pencils.

I started by stamping the image four times on kraft cardstock using Versafine.  I used my MISTI and simply rotated my cardstock to get the four stampings.  Because of the shape/orientation, I actually had to flip my cardstock piece over and stamp on both sides of it, but it worked just fine.

Then I proceeded to color the images.  I used four different shades of blue (my colored pencils are Prismacolor Premier).  The lightest shade was very light, close to white, which created a great foundation for the berries, making the coloring very bright and luminous.

For the leaves and stems, I used three shades each of green and brown.

Once the coloring was done, I put my cardstock piece back in the MISTI (I had left the stamp in place), stamped again with Versafine and then embossed with Ranger Frosted Crystal embossing powder.

I then die cut each of the images, and used them to create two cards.

The sentiments for each of these cards are from the Joyous Juniper set.

I also wanted to create a card with just stamping, so I cut another panel of kraft cardstock and created a randomly stamped pattern with the juniper image.

A simple sentiment strip and black mat finished things off.  This was so quick and easy!

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And Merry Christmas in July!